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Max Martin
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Swedish record producer and songwriter
OverviewAI-generated
Max Martin, born Karl Martin Sandberg on February 26, 1971, in Stockholm, Sweden, is a Swedish composer, songwriter, and record producer. He began his professional work in 1985 and has worked with Jive Records. His musical output spans pop, dance, contemporary R&B, and rock genres. Martin is a citizen of Sweden and speaks both Swedish and English. He attended Södra Latin for his education.
Throughout his career, Martin has received several honors, including the Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, the Polar Music Prize, and H. M. The King's Medal. He has also received the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. His copyright is represented by STIM.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 22
Top works
- Die Apostelkanne und das Tafelsilber im Hortfund von 1628
- Res Cretaria Romana Rauricorum
- Hüben und drüben -- Räume und Grenzen in der Archäologie des Frühmittelalters
- Contribution à l'étude du traitement chirurgical de la hernie périnéale du chien
- Was hat man von der quantitativen Glykogenbestimmung zum Nachweis von Pferdefleisch nach dem Reichsfleischbeschaugesetz vom 1. April 1903 zu halten?
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Film & TV
Acting · Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Max Martin was born on February 26, 1971 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden as Martin Karl Sandberg.
Known for
- ABBA: 50 Years of Pop — Self2024
- E-Type: The way I wanna live — Self (archive footage)2023
- This Is Pop — Self (archive footage)2021
- Miss Americana — Self2020
- Det svenska popundret — Self2019
- The Making of a Song — Self2017
- Justin Bieber's Believe — Self2013
- Diary — Self2000
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3,874
- Total plays
- 10,816
1) The millennial heir to Sweden's tradition of frothy, incessantly catchy pop, Max Martin wasn't an international star like ABBA, Roxette, or Ace of Base. But as a songwriter and producer, Martin spearheaded the late-'90s teen pop revival by crafting a ubiquitous string of worldwide hits for Britney Spears, *NSYNC, and The Backstreet Boys, among many others. Martin was born Martin Sandberg on February 26, 1971, and grew up in the suburbs of Stockholm; as a teenager <a href="https://www.last.fm/
Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 434
- Cited by
- 24,945
Research areas
Most cited works
- The neurobiology of itch2006 · 943 cit
- Specific C-Receptors for Itch in Human Skin1997 · 898 cit
- Clinical Classification of Itch: a Position Paper of the International Forum for the Study of Itch2007 · 745 cit
- Proteinase-Activated Receptor-2 Mediates Itch: A Novel Pathway for Pruritus in Human Skin2003 · 641 cit
- Novel classes of responsive and unresponsive C nociceptors in human skin1995 · 495 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using
<b>lme4</b>
· 2015 · cited 75,814x
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 48,627x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,514x
- STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ASSESSING AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO METHODS OF CLINICAL MEASUREMENT
· 1986 · cited 37,917x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,878x
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Key facts
- Born
- Karl Martin Sandberg , ( 1971-02-26 ) 26 February 1971 (age 55) , Stockholm , Sweden
- Other name
- Martin White
- Occupations
- Record producer songwriter
- Years active
- 1984–present
- Spouse
- Jenny Petersson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2011 )
- Awards
- Full list
- Genres
- Pop dance R&B rock
- Labels
- Jive Cheiron RCA Capitol LaFace Island Location Songs Bertelsmann Atlantic Maratone MxM
- Formerly of
- It's Alive
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Karl Martin Sandberg (born 26 February 1971), known professionally as Max Martin, is a Swedish record producer and songwriter. He rose to prominence in the late 1990s with songwriting credits on a string of hit singles, such as Britney Spears's "...Baby One More Time" (1998), the Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way" (1999), Celine Dion's "That's the Way It Is" (1999), and NSYNC's "It's Gonna Be Me" (2000).
Martin has written or co-written 30 Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles; 28 of which he has produced or co-produced, an all-time record for the chart as of March 2024. His credits include Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" (2008) and "Roar" (2013), Maroon 5's "One More Night" (2012), Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off", "Blank Space" (2014) and "The Fate of Ophelia" (2025), Ariana Grande's "Yes, And?" and "We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)" (2024), Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber's "I Don't Care" (2019) and The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" (2019) and "Save Your Tears" (2020). "Blinding Lights" is the best performing song of all time according to the chart. Martin has written the second-most number-one singles on the chart, behind only Paul McCartney (32), having surpassed John Lennon (26) with his 27th number one in March 2024. Many of Martin's hits were used in the 2019 jukebox musical & Juliet.
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